Here's what Americans do all day

The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently released the results
of the 2014 American Time Use Survey, an annual survey of
around 11,000 Americans who are asked to give a detailed
description of what they did on a particular day. Using that
data, the BLS can estimate how much time people spent on various
activities on average.

The averages are among all survey respondents, regardless
of whether or not they participated in a given activity on their
survey day. So, for example, people who are unemployed would have
been considered to have participated in "work and work-related
activities" for zero hours, and are incorporated into the average
as such.

Unsurprisingly, the biggest activity was sleeping. Just about
every survey respondent reported having slept on their survey
day, and the average amount of time Americans slept each day was
about 8.80 hours, or 8 hours and 48 minutes.

On average, Americans spent
2.82 hours, or 2 hours and 49 minutes, watching television, and
0.74 hours, or 44 and a half minutes, shopping for goods and
services.

Here's the average amount of
time Americans spent doing various things each day: